MedCity News September 19, 2024
Bob Segert

Doctor’s offices are the front door of the American healthcare system. We owe it to them to support H.R. 2474 and put an end to annual Congressional stop-gap spending bills.

In an era of rising costs for everything from groceries to gasoline to healthcare, independent physicians are now going to receive less — not more — for taking care of our most-vulnerable citizens, our seniors, furthering a crisis that has been deepening for years.

Last month the federal government recently released a proposed update to a policy that most Americans have never heard about but could very well have a profound impact on their next doctor’s appointment. That policy — the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule — determines how much healthcare...

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